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"Looking for a professional solution for teaching remote students online? BigBlueButton provides real-time sharing of audio, video, slides, chat, and screen. Students are engaged through sharing of emoji icons, polling, and breakout rooms." This online collabrative tool also allows shared web links and documents.

"Create flashcards Create your own flashcards with two clicks. You can use different styles (bold, italic, red/green colour, underline). Add pictures to your cards easily. Study flashcards You can study your cards alone or online with your friends. Just use Skype or the integrated chat functionality and see how easy it is. Information about learning in a team Print flashcards Print individual flashcards or all of them in two steps and learn them offline wherever you are. Teamwork You can comment on each flashcard, track the status of your knowledge, track changes, study online with friends and send messages to them. Publish flashcards You can publish your flashcards. Everyone who receives the link to your cards can import them to their account." Flashcards as a social networking tool! This is a nice way to have students create their own good study habits, and there is an iPhone App available too You can also search for flashcards made by other students. Better than Rosetta Stone.

This site creates several kinds of activities and games: interactive map, riddles, fill-in, crossword puzzles, dialogue with audio prompts, dictation, jumbled word or sentence, matching, word search, and quizzzes. You can store your creations for repeated use.

This is a great place for students to SEE visually how words and expressions relate to each other. A must for the visual learner, but wonderful for everyone. Try an expression like "go out" to see how idioms are related to the original meaning.

"Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom." Suggestions include Resource Creation, e.g., for presentations, math problems, glossary, study guides; Student Participation, e.g., for exam review, portfolios, peer editing; Group Projects, e.g., organizing ideas, tracking progjects, showing participation; Student Interaction, e.g., for collecting data, discussion of a book, creating and authoring a group story; for the Classroom, e.g., creating a FAQ, a calendar, sharing class news; Community, e.g., writing a local history or nature guide, a place for parents to see their children's work; and generally as a hub or Website, or to track progress.

"Welcome to DS106, the open online course on digital storytelling that began at the University of Mary Washington and continues as a community of learners across the globe. " Interesting blogs and examples of student collaborative projects.

10 Great ELT sites - online training videos. The nice thing that Russell Stannard does is make a Jing video of each site, so when you arrive there, you already know what it does and how to get it to work for you. You can sign up to get an email whenever Russell adds a new site.

Make simple movies using a limited set of backgrounds and characters. Might be good practice for adult students getting used to writing/practicing dialogues.

A small app will record from your computer over slides and videos. You will probably quickly run out of storage on the KV cloud and be asked to move to the (paid) pro version. However, this might be useful for students to make their own presentation sound great -- good listening/speaking practice. Students must sign up to use the app, but can share their productions through email addresses. I don't know if it is any simpler or more functional than the built in recording function of PowerPoint, or any of the free recorders like Audacity.

Pixabay was recently updated to make it easier than ever to find quality public domain images. Now when you visit the search page on Pixabay you can filter your search according to image type (photo, drawing, vector), image orientation (landscape or portrait), and image category (subject matter). Still, it's a time-consuming process. T/H to R.Byrne

"TwistedWave is a new audio recording and editing tool that is now included in Next Vista's list of recommended tools. Through TwistedWave you can create and edit spoken audio recordings from scratch. Your completed tracks can be exported to Google Drive and SoundCloud."

Organize all your links and online resources. Collect, archive, and share in one place. The entry level tool is free. One use would be a CV online -- an easy way to build a website with links to all your goodies. Similarly, students could create tabs for all their research on a topic. Can handle images and creative uses of page real estate. See R. Stannard's training video on this tool: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/e-portfolios-iwbs/binder.html

"Learn English online with the help of this free website from the British Council with games, stories, listening activities and grammar exercises. You can search for your favourites, or have a look at the site map to find out where everything is. This is a BETA site and you will find lots of new listening activities and video content in Listen & Watch. We also have a new Grammar section and new IELTS exam practice materials. Click here to return to the 'old' LearnEnglish website. Double-click any word to see a dictionary definition. You can contact us if you have a question or want to report any problems. Become a member and you can add comments to the site and ask questions to get help with your English." This site has thematic/situationally based videos.

"A little while back I saw a Netflix Template for Google Slides. It's essentially a template to replicate the screens you view when looking at episodes for a Netflix series. I immediately loved the idea of creating a Netflix series for a novel (displaying an understanding of plot, setting, characters, etc.). " T/h N LaFave

R Byrne has a nice set of links to tools and a brief discussion of how to do a book review site. Try out his book trailer ideas for a lively class project.